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#MixedPairs #BirdOfTheDay

Pochard & Shoveler
Black-Necked Stilt & Snowy Egret
Great Egret & Snowy Egret
Ravens mobbing a Red-Tailed Hawk

#WaterfowlWednesday

Mute Swan
Great Crested Grebes (mid-weed dance)
Little Grebes
Drake Goldeneye

#3sDay #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdPhotography

Mandarin Ducks
Mute Swans
Greenfinches
Black-Headed Gulls

She gives the impression that she thinks that everyone is a weak, loser sucker. (Except for her god; Trump)

Noem doesn't care. She just, simply, does not care, at all.
She doesn't give a single, solitary, flying fuck about hurting anyone's feelings, or about physically hurting people, whoever they are. She's just as much a sociopath as Trump and Hegseth are

The intelligence information files will be released in a year or two. Heavily redacted, of course (to protect the guilty).

The American Constitution is merely a set of non legally binding "guidelines" (apparently)

#NestBuilding #BirdOfTheDay

Brandt's Cormorant, collecting seaweed from the bottom of Monterey Marina, California

#NestBuilding #BirdOfTheDay

A Wood Pigeon being rather optimistic/unrealistic with its choice of twig (branch, really) for its nest

#NestBuilders #BirdOfTheDay

Cock House Sparrow collecting a downy Egret feather for his partner's nest.

#ShoutItOut #BirdOfTheDay

Great Tit
Robin
Whitethroat
Starling

#SideView #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdPhotography

Great Crested Grebes
Little Grebes
Shoveler drake
Tufted Duck drake

#Yellow #BirdOfTheDay

Great Tits

#birdoftheday #yellow

Grey Wagtail
Goldfinch
Blue Tit
Great Tit

#SideView #BirdOfTheDay

Starling
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Blue Tit

#Birdoftheday #Finches #Birds #BirdPhotography

Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Siskin
Chaffinch

#birdoftheday #perfectlighting

Cinnamon Teal (drake)
Snowy Egret
Mallard (drake)

IF Trump ever actually does testify under oath (which is HIGHLY unlikely) does anyone genuinely believe that being under oath will make the slightest difference to the truthfulness of anything he says?

#Blue #BirdOfTheDay

Western Bluebird
Kingfisher
Blue Tit
White-Headed Duck

#FourOrMore #BirdOfTheDay

Bufflehead drakes
Spotted Sandpipers
Greater Scaup (I think)
Long-Billed Dowitchers

(all in central, coastal California)

More Gray Whale migration snaps. Characteristic heart-shaped "blow" (up to 15 feet high)

Northern Elephant Seals at Piedras Blancas rookery (near San Simeon), California

Grey Whales migrating across Monterey Bay towards Baja California.

Sea Otters. Moss Landing harbour, Monterey Bay CA

Steller Sea-Lion hanging out with the smaller Californian Sea-Lions

Californian Sea-Lions (& 1 Steller Sea-Lion) hanging out around Moss Landing Harbour, Monterey County CA

#PrimaryColours #BirdOfTheDay

Great Tit
Goldfinch
Mallard drake

#BestOfTheMonth (part 3 - final iteration, I promise)
#BirdOfTheDay

Snowy Egret
Mallard
Snowy Egret (again)
Black-Necked Stilt (with lunch)

#FlyDay

Surf Scoter
American Wigeon
Great Egret
Northern Harrier

(central coastal California)

#BestOfTheMonth (2nd try) #BirdOfTheDay

Squabbling Willets
Feeding Thin-Billed Curlew
Forster's Tern
Cinnamon Teal

#BestOfTheMonth #BirdOfTheDay

It was almost impossible to only select 4 images from the 5000+ I took during my 2 week vacation in central California in early Feb - but here is a stab at it... (1st iteration)

American Wigeon
American Avocet
Bufflehead drake
Northern Shoveler drake